“Churchill’s Unmerited Nobel Prize”
A letter to The Guardian presents a new Churchill Transgression. His 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature (for “mastery of historical and biographical description [and] oratory defending exalted human values”) is undeserved! The writer says:
As historian David Reynolds has detailed, the six volumes of Churchill’s history [sic; it was memoir not history] of the Second World War were built upon selective memory forged out of ego, not least the “great man’s” fleeting memory of the 1943 Bengal famine, in which more than 3.5 million people perished, to a large extent as a direct consequence of Churchill’s policies and actions.…